Americana, including Maps & Prints Lots 317-395 317 ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. 4to (274 x 212 mm). Half-title; engraved folding map. (Some minor offsetting of map.) Contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards (some rubbing). FIRST EDITION of the “best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them” (Howes). Adair lived and traded among several tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Chickasaw. ESTC T86841; Graff 10; Howes A-38 (“best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them”); Sabin 155. Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia 317
$1,500 - 2,500 318 [AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [TILGHMAN, Tench (1744-1786)]. Memoir of Lieut. Col. Tench Tilghman, Secretary and Aid to Washington, together with an Appendix, containing Revolutionary Journals and Letters Hitherto Unpublished. Albany: J. Munsell, 1876. 4to (254 x 174 mm ). Portrait frontispiece, title-page printed in black and red. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 85 PLATES AND 4 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (see below). (Some minor spotting and occasional offsetting.) Contemporary half navy morocco gilt (spine sunned, some light wear to extremities). ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS NEATLY BOUND OR LAID IN from various members of the Tilghman family, comprising: TILGHMAN, William, as jurist. ALS to James C. & Samuel W. Fisher. 7 April 1794. 1pp. Regarding financial transactions with Solomon Scott and Edward Tilghman. -- TILGHMAN, James. ALS to Tench Tilghman. 25 February 1786. 1pp. Regarding request for additional funds. -TILGHMAN, Tench, and Thomas TILGHMAN. Partially printed DS, counter-signed by Robert Denny. Baltimore-County, Maryland, 25 November 1785. 1pp. Regarding the maturity of a loan from the State of Maryland at the Port of Baltimore to the Tilghman brothers. -- TILGHMAN, Tench, as General Washington’s s aide-decamp. ALS, to General Benjamin Lincoln, 19 April 1777. 1pp. Regarding plans for General Lincoln to discipline privates who have attempted to desert.
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Tench Tilghman served as aide-de-camp to General George Washington, and became a trusted member of his staff. He split with Loyalist members of his own family to dedicate himself to the cause of the Patriots. He was admitted as an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati in his home state of Maryland when it was established in 1783; Benjamin Lincoln was also a founding member. On his untimely death in 1786, George Washington wrote to Tilghman’s brother and father: “As there were few men for whom I had a warmer friendship or great regard than for your brother...with much truth I can assure you, that, there are none whose death I could more sincerely have regretted...No one entertained a higher opinion of his worth...than I had done.” $1,000 - 1,500 319 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Co. & Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [i.e. Nico Israel], 1971-1972. 4 volumes, oversize folio. 435 colored plates. Publisher’s half calf over green cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 82 of 250 copies printed for Mark and Carmen Holeman. THE FIRST AND FINEST FULL-SIZE REPRODUCTION of Audubon’s Birds of America, reproducing the subscriber’s copy in the collection of the Teyler Foundation in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The edition was limited to 250 copies, which retailed in 1972 for $5,500. A FINE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER’S COPY.
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